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...Runny Babbit was among Silverstein's papers when he died at 68. He had been working on it for more than 20 years. His son Matthew and other family members finally agreed to its publication this year. The book is another collection of poems, but with a difference. All of them, like the title, are built on spoonerisms, or pairs of words in which the first letters are transposed. Example: "Runny had to bake a tath/ Before they'd sive him gupper./ He got so tungry in the hub,/ He ate the rat of mubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Children's Books of 2005 | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...tinge of disappointment after hauling bags of old books back to the Coop only to find that they’ll only offer you a couple of dollars for books that were many times more expensive at the beginning of the semester. According to Assistant General Manager Steve Babbit, we end up getting what the Coop calls “wholesale price” for many of our books because the Coop is unsure if these books will be needed next year. Many professors do not submit book orders until mid-summer, even though the Coop asks that they...

Author: By Nicholas F.B. Smyth, | Title: Cooperating with the Coop | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

This plan could work independently at all six M.I.T. and Harvard Coop locations, saving both the Coop and its customers huge amounts of money. And management is interested: Steve Babbit said, “That’s an idea we should bring up. I’m willing to bring the idea to the Coop board.” After all, when the Coop and students share the risks and benefits of speculation, everyone has more money to spend on midnight pizza, beer and, well, more books...

Author: By Nicholas F.B. Smyth, | Title: Cooperating with the Coop | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...HUPD officers stopped two suspicious people behind the Harvard Hillel. After a field interview, police arrested Theodore Babbit, 18, of Cambridge for possession of a Class A substance...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

...Interior and Agriculture vet from earlier GOP administrations. That's she's from one of those red states out in the untamed west is no surprise; that she's not Slade Gorton, the departing senator from Microsoftland who has made more enemies among American Indians than Bruce Babbit ever dreamed of, should reduce the controversy factor considerably. Very Bush, who said she'll help him "find ways to develop our nation's resources in a balanced and environmentally friendly way." Translation: Arctic drilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubya's Cozy Cabinet Formula | 12/29/2000 | See Source »

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